I just found out that there's a brand of soft drink with the same name as the popular Linux distribution. For those of you who don't know this yet, let me introduce you to Ubuntu Cola. Also named after the African philosophy, it is made in the United Kingdom and with a key ingredient that is Fair Trade Certified.
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Ubuntu Cola vs. Windows Cola
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The Day The Netbook Died
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Back in March I wrote a glowing review of my Sylvania g Netbook Meso, calling it "a Linux netbook done right." Last month everything changed.
Read more »AcaWiki uses free software to liberate scientific research
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AcaWiki is a promising new project to build a body of scientific knowledge that is free to use, study, improve, and redistribute. Instead of waiting for journals to make papers more available, they're building a free equivalent that will be just as useful.
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LinuxCertified Announces its next Linux System and Network Administration BootCamp.
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LinuxCertified,Inc. a leading provider of Linux training, will offer weekend Linux system administration bootcamp on October 15th - 16th, 2009 in South Bay (CA). This workshop is designed for busy information technology professionals and is designed to cover the most important Linux administration areas.
Read more »Richard Stallman Explains Why Not SUSE
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In a new interview, Richard Stallman explains the problem with SUSE
Read more »History of Free Gaming from Libregamewiki, the Free Gaming Encyclopedia
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History is a master list of historical events in the free gaming community organized by years, then by months. They are compiled from various articles on the Libregamewiki.
Information included in here are release date, contests that took place, when projects are started, and much more.
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Linux Radio Ads a Success, Not a Failure
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Ken Starks reported on his experiment with running Linux ads on the Kim Kommando radio show in Austin, Texas. Ken sounds a bit discouraged, but he shouldn't be-- it was a success and it proves that advertising Linux works. Let's take a closer look at what happened, and what the goals of any advertising campaign should be.
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COSC dept hosts digital freedom talk - Christchurch, New Zealand - Tuesday, 13/10/2009
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Richard M. Stallman talk: «Christchurch, New Zealand - A1 Lecture Theatre (Arts block), University of Canterbury, Ilam. To make a digital society worthy of being included in, we must overcome six menaces to freedom: surveillance, censorship, restricted data formats, proprietary software, software as a service, and the War on Sharing.»
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Which Linux do you tell n00bs to use?
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As you were frantically pounding away at your keyboard, your workmate asks what sort of operating system you are using. Your eyes light up, you switch to evangilistic mode and start spouting the benefits of Linux.
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Ubuntu man finds metalove in Debian attacks
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If there's an upside to the Debian community's recent attacks on Ubuntu and Mark Shuttleworth it's that there'll be more conversation between engineers on the two distros.
Read more »KDE Akademy 2010 Dates Announced
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Last week Adriaan de Groot, Claudia Rauch and Kenny Duffus visited Tampere, Finland representing KDE. This gave a chance to meet face to face with members of the local team and talk about next summer's Akademy 2010 conference.
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Wireless Battle Mesh v2 (Brussels, 17-18 Oct)
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"HackerSpaceBrussels (HSB) announces the second Wireless Battle Mesh, which aims to test 3 popular WiFi routing protocols (OLSR, Batman and Babel), in Brussels on Saturday and Sunday 17-18 October 2009..."
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Digital rights: call to all citizens to fight back (Free Culture Forum)
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"The first International Free Culture Forum will take place in Barcelona from October 29 to November 1 2009. This event will bring together the main organisations and most active voices in the world of Free Culture and Free Knowledge to set common agendas and strategies..."
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Learning to love KDE 4 (part I)
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There seems little doubt that KDE 4, the flagship desktop environment used by many Linux aficionados, was released too early. After seven years of solid, steady KDE 3 deployment, KDE 4 was released amidst the much media hoopla and near-universal user disappointment. As a result many users simply avoided it. Including me. At least until recently.
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Update on the Italian Perl Workshop 2009
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As recently announced, the fifth Italian Perl Workshop will take place in Pisa (Italy) on October 22nd and 23rd. 120 people subscribed already, and more are expected by the first day of the Workshop. A full list of the accepted talks is available.
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